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LAS VEGAS -- iRobot’s line of robotic home cleaning assistants continues to grow, and the latest addition is an update to its Scooba Floor Mop called the Scooba 450. This new intelligent mop is slightly heavier and larger than its previous incarnatio...

The next step in transformative technology is already here, and the United States runs the risk of getting left behind. The amount of robotics inventions is steadily on the rise, and the U.S. military is already in on the action. A few years ago, Air...

Product Name: Cubebot Puzzle Price: $28 Who would like this?: Kids ages 12 and up, or people who want to add some fun to their desk In a holiday market filled with figurines and ever-popular Transformers toys, parents may be looking for a less violen...

If you were a founder in any industry where Google just snapped up eight of your competitors, and you wanted to remain in that business, you might expect to feel a little nervous. Not Colin Angle. Angle (pictured above) is the founder and CEO of iRob...

The age of commercial and private drones is upon us, exemplified by increasingly common stories of drone mishaps and even the likes Amazon announcing plans to launch a drone delivery service in the coming years. But there may not always be enough han...

Google acquired Boston Dynamics, an engineering and robotics-design company, in a deal that significantly enhances the search giant's robotics expertise. The Friday acquisition brings a new dynamic to Google’s robotics efforts, led by Andy Rubin, whi...

At 6'2", 275 pounds, NASA's latest robot look like a decent football player, but Valkyrie could be earmarked for another human profession -- astronaut. The android -- which was built to be a search-and-rescue bot -- comes with sonar equipment, camera...

When a roving security robot called the K5 was unveiled late last week by a Silicon Valley startup called Knightscope, the company went a little nuts with its monikers. The press release described the machine as "R2-D2 meets Robocop." But Knightscope...

When I first saw it, I wasn't sure what I was looking at. I thought somebody had attached an iPad to a pole and wheels. Then I saw my boss' face featured prominently on the iPad's screen, whizzing around the office. He was telecommuting using Double,...

The next step in nature-inspired engineering could come in the form of small, stingray-like unmanned submarines. Researchers at Harvard University and the University at Buffalo have studied how the sea creatures swim and believe their movements could...

When is a drone not a drone? When it's a robot, which technically describes Amazon's just-unveiled Prime Air delivery vehicles. Made to fly and deliver packages autonomously, the devices make decisions on their own about how to fly and where to land ...

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is known for making big bets in the world of innovation, and on Sunday night on 60 Minutes he revealed what might be one of his biggest: product delivery by flying robot drones. The service is called Amazon Prime Air...

During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee...

Police squads across the U.S. respond to more than 30,000 bomb-related incidents every year. Though many turn out to be hoaxes or false alarms, the immediacy of these situations highlights a need for small, deployable robots that can navigate all typ...

Modular Robotics, a company based in Boulder, Co., is about to release robot-building kits that let you construct any kind of android you want, no programming required. The kits, called MOSS, come in three different sizes. The larger ones contain pi...

Students at KTH, a technology university in Sweden, are building a robot of Swedish singer Robyn. Best known for her Grammy-nominated dance hit "Dancing on My Own," Robyn has several songs about robots: "Robot Boy," "Fembot" and "The Girl and The Rob...

Designed for companionship, a new toddler-sized robot can hold a conversation in 19 different languages. Built by Paris-based robotics company Aldebaran and infused with language-learning software developed by voice-technology company Nuance, the rob...

What do you do if you’re faced with increasing labor costs and a shortage of workers? If you’re one Chinese province, you invest in workers that never demand raises and are willing to work around the clock. Over the next five years, authorities in th...

In 2048, people-like robots will be as much a part of New York City's police department as old-fashioned humans. At least, that's the vision in Fox's latest cop drama, Almost Human, which premieres Nov. 17 and re-airs the following day. The show star...

The whole robots-taking-over-the-world scenario comes to mind when describing Morphs, robotic and geometric sculptures that are to control their own movements, adapt to different surroundings and reshape how humans think about architecture. These sol...

Here is the weirdest thing about the modern Web: humans are only one constituency and maybe not the most profitable one. Consider the case of an anonymous publishing executive who spoke with the media trade magazine Digiday about purchasing bulk robo...

My dog, Zoomer, doesn’t listen. He sticks his shiny black nose where it doesn’t belong, is always bumping into things and has a habit of peeing where I don’t want him to. Still, when he rolls around on his four paws I am more than a little charmed by...

The Roomba, the automated robot vacuum, is more than just a great idea -- it's an inevitable one. As technology progresses, it just makes too much sense to relegate simple, menial tasks to automatons. I have no doubt that one day, most homes will hav...

There's a new use for artificial hearts, and it involves a more taboo bodily fluid than blood. A device that mimics the squeezing action of the human heart has been used to pump urine into a microbial fuel cell, which could power robots that convert ...

A friend of mine, well into his thirties, remembers going to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Penn., while growing up. There, he and his brothers would play a type of real-life video game -- instead of playing with controllers and screens, the...

Dutch dance duo The RobotBoys are a well-oiled machine of tight beats and tighter moves. They dance like there's no tomorrow, or if there is a tomorrow, it's ruled by our superior robot overlords. The two RobotBoys and guest pop n' locker Poppin' Joh...

Robots -- is there anything we're more fascinated by and terrified of at the same time? Everyone knows that robots are cool, but the technology has also come a long way from their humble beginnings. We've bought robots as toys, sent them into space a...

The U.S. military may implement a robot that has fired a machine gun at targets up to 500 feet away. Though drones have assaulted targets from the sky, this is the first time a robot on the ground has fired a weapon. Four companies tested the gun-wie...

Starbucks’ 95,000 baristas have a competitor. It doesn’t need sleep. It’s precise in a way that a human could never be. It requires no training. It can’t quit. It has memorized every one of its customers’ orders. There’s never a line for its perfectl...

Let one robot into the office and you have a 21st solution to a common problem: keeping telecommuting workers connected to their jobs. Let a few more in, and soon you have a weird, WALL-E-like situation. Guess the robots are already in charge. And if...

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